Winemaker Notes
Complex aromas dominated by the pureness of its fruitiness that evolves towards roasted and spicy notes with fine animal nuances; musk and fur. Its rich and complex structure combines power and elegance. A very good candidate for ageing. From its youth this vintage can seduce with its harmony.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2020 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Saint-Georges opens in the glass with aromas of dark berries and plums mingled with warm spices, baking chocolate and loamy soil. Medium to full-bodied, rich and layered, it's gourmand and dramatic, with lively acids and ample reserves of powdery tannin.
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Jasper Morris
A bright pure purple. Quite a powerful bouquet which will need time to reveal its detail. Another immense mouthful of fruit, good acidity, a balanced wine, without quite the intensity of some in this flight, but managing the heat much better than others.
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Vinous
The 2020 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Saint-Georges ler Cru has a perfumed, floral bouquet that is quite Vosne-like. Violets infuse the black cherries and crushed strawberries. The palate is medium-bodied with saturated tannins, fleshy and ripe, but there is brightness and tension, with greater harmony on the finish compared to Gouge's Vaucrains.
Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
Inhabiting the bottom end of the northern half of the Côte d’Or, Nuits-St-Georges is a busy, market-driven town and home to many of Burgundy’s negociants. It is also the largest town in the Côte d’Or after Beaune and contributes "nuits" to the name of Côte de Nuits (i.e., the northern half of the Côte d’Or).
The appellation itself is divided into two parts, where in the north it directly borders Vosne-Romanée, the southerly end is the commune of Prémeaux. There are no Grands Crus in this village, though it does have a large number of Premiers Crus.
The best Nuits-St-Georges Pinot Noir are layered with cherry, plum, underbrush and sandalwood. The fruit is sweet, the wine energetic, and the finish long and lush.